The Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (Mrap or Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples) has launched a complaint of racism against French Secretary of State for the Family, Nadine Morano, for comments she made about Muslim youth. During a debate on national identity on 14 December 2009 at…
Judicial officials say Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into allegations of violence against three youths of North African origin by suspected members of a hard-line pro-Israel group. The violence allegedly took place Thursday outside a Paris high school in the 16th district where suspected members of the Jewish Defense League were handing out leaflets….
PARIS – MRAP, the Movement Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and for Peace, takes on Islamophobia. Its leaders regard Islamophobia as a violation of fundamental principles, including human and civic rights and liberties, on which modern, tolerant and free democracies are constructed. M. Aounit, president of MRAP, raised controversy with his primarily cultural (as opposed to religious)…
A French satirical weekly published a new cartoon of the prophet Muhammad on its cover, as a French Muslim group condemned the violence that Danish caricatures sparked in Muslim countries. The wave of protests, “orchestrated four months after the facts, aims at caging all freedom of thought by artists and intellectuals,” Tewfik Allal, of the…
